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Another vein of patronage runs through the contractors' performance bonds (guaranteeing satisfactory work on public projects). To be sure that the state has recourse in its own courts, the bonding company must have an agent who lives in Indiana. Most knowing contractors will ask the Toll Road Commission for advice on selecting the agent. Says Director Wedeking with Indiana frankness "If they ask our advice, we give it-and if somebody has been running around the state condemning the governor, we forget he's in business." One big commission went to Linn Kidd, an insurance...
Delay & Deal. Like Senator Malone, most politicians in Indiana feel all right about this process. But if they are at odds with the state administration, they feel just terrible about who is getting the benefit. When Jenner & Co. saw that more toll roads projected for the future would give the Craig organization a potent long-range weapon, they decided to set up some roadblocks...
...sixth day of the 1955 session of the legislature last January, Jenner men introduced in the state senate a bill that would have effectually blocked construction of Craig's next proposed toll road. Their public argument: the legislature, and not the governor, should control the activities of the Toll Road Commission...
...Commission for permission to park its new fire truck in the state garage, the request was referred to Roy Conrad. When the puzzled state senator representing that district asked Conrad to approve the request, he got a question for an answer. How was he going to vote on the toll-road bill...
Eventually, the Craig forces had to let a toll-road restriction bill pass the senate. But it was watered down to a thinness almost acceptable to the Craig administration. Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, the key Jenner lieutenant, complaining that his forces should have been rougher in the fight, cracked: "But, you know how it is; there are always a few boys who don't really know the score, and so they want to be fair...